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ἔπιεν (epien)

ἔπιεν is an Ancient Greek form of πίνω, meaning “drink”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caesar 34.3: … ὼν παρεστρατοπέδευσεν. ὁ δὲ ἀπογνοὺς τὰ καθʼ ἑαυτόν ᾔτησε τὸν ἰατρὸν οἰκέτην ὄντα φάρμακον καί λαβὼν τὸ δοθὲν ἔπιεν ὡς τεθνηξόμενος.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.14·4: … κεῖ τὴν νύκτα διαγαγὼν ἐν τῷ κώμῳ καὶ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν, ἤρξατο πυρέσσειν. πυρέττων δὲ καὶ διψήσας σφοδρῶς, ἕπιεν οἶνον, καὶ φρενιτιάσας ἀπέθανεν. εἷς μὲν οὖν ὁ τῆς ἐκείνου τελευτῆς λόγος οὗτος· ἕτερος δ᾿ ἔχει ἐφ᾿ ἡμέρας αὐ …

All forms of πίνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.